Hi,

I am wondering how having my index page re-direct to elsewhere may affect my google ranking/spidering.

The reason I ask is this, the main bulk of my site is at domainname.com/directoryname. Now, from time to time I want to display things before the user gets to the main area, for example an advert or a message. So, I thought that what I would do is add an index.php file to the root that during normal operation will just re-direct straight to domainname.com/directoryname (on the same domain) but if I wanted to use an extra frontpage I can just add the code to the index file and link it to the main area as needed.

I have seen other sites do this (eg MP3.com, metalhammer.co.uk etc) and wondering how they do it and how google treats this.

TIA
Simon

recedo,

I once redirect one of my websites to another domain (different IP address). And after that my site totally disappeared from Google.

eeek! I don't want that to happen! But then again I am re-directing to the same domain name, just another directory.

If the worse comes to the worse I'll have to have a permenant intro page, which I don't really want. Basically it's for either important messages, in house adverts (that we want a lot of people to see) or "very expensive" ad campaigns.

If it is likely to be a problem with Google does anyone know a workaround or another way to do this?

Thinking of it now, a site I used to run - www.digitalblur.co.uk - re-directs to another page under the same domain and Google seems to have indexed most of the pages there.

Simon

Originally Posted by recedo

Hi,

I am wondering how having my index page re-direct to elsewhere may affect my google ranking/spidering.

The reason I ask is this, the main bulk of my site is at domainname.com/directoryname. Now, from time to time I want to display things before the user gets to the main area, for example an advert or a message. So, I thought that what I would do is add an index.php file to the root that during normal operation will just re-direct straight to domainname.com/directoryname (on the same domain) but if I wanted to use an extra frontpage I can just add the code to the index file and link it to the main area as needed.

I have seen other sites do this (eg MP3.com, metalhammer.co.uk etc) and wondering how they do it and how google treats this.

TIA
Simon

As its a php use the permanent redirect and it would be fine using
header(Redirect 301 moved permanently)

Please the syntax as its not correct in the above statement.

Thanks
Shabbir Bhimani

Originally Posted by shabbirbhimani

As its a php use the permanent redirect and it would be fine using
header(Redirect 301 moved permanently)

Sorry, would this be in the php code (eg inside index.php) or in a htaccess file? Ideally I would want it in the code if this is possible.

Thanks
Simon

I did this sucessfully some months ago after renaming all my php files etc and restructuring my directories

I renamed my entry page from jbhome.php to index.php and put the following line into my .htaccess

Redirect 301 /jbhome.php http://www.judithbarrett.co.uk/index.php

For a few months, G tried to find the old pages AS WELL as re-spidering down from the new index page. This just meant I got a few error pages in my log, but nothing else.

Now, it's all fine - G has worked out the new structure and doesn't try to find the old pages. I didn't get dropped from google or anything horrific.

That sounds good to me. I guess it should be alright then.

Thanks
Simon